Fans cast an astounding 160 million votes — a new record! — during the nominee selection phase for the 2014 People’s Choice Awards.

So, who snagged the most votes? While Glee picked up an impressive 8 nominations in TV, Katy Perry leaped ahead in music with 5 nods. Meanwhile, Sandra Bullock dominated movies with 5 nominations. Of course, those are just some of the highlights.

• Facebook — Fans can personalize their voting experience and share their votes with friends. Check out our page here.

• Twitter — Fans can cast official votes for the People’s Choice Awards by tweeting a specific series of hashtags based on the nominee’s name and category. See the list of hashtags created for each nominee here.

• Mobile — Fans can vote in all categories on the People’s Choice Awards mobile site, and via the official voting application for iPhone and iPad.

Did your favorites make the cut? Who are you most surprised to see on the ballot? Who are you most excited about? And who will get your vote in the final round? Tell us in the comments!

The 40th Annual People’s Choice Awards air live on CBS on Wednesday, Jan. 8 at 9 p.m. ET.

I feel all voting for awards shows & reality shows are rigged some way, somehow. No nod for new talk show, #Katie or Jay Ryan,of #BATB, that seems unreal to me. Glad I didn’t go “the write in” way. Not a fan of Supernatural, sorry, but have watched, and voted in one their categories out of respect for having the longest running series on the CW. No disrespect to Britney Spears, but why was she even a nominee with the other ladies, she barely makes music, out of respect perhaps? Lady Gaga is more fitting. I would put Britney in a 90’s icon category. So bottom line for me, I will continue to vote, because some of my other favorites did make it, and I’m sure some of my favorites will win despite, but I wouldn’t invest my money in this voting thingy. Just want them to know I’m not fooled :-)

This is for the SPN Dean and Castiel shippers. I commented on some specific posts, but just because they were useful in structuring this reply.

Supernatural was nominated under bromance. This is likely because PCA are a wider net than more internet polls and the majority of Supernatural fans voted for them under bromance while only some wrote them in under chemistry.

Most people took on-screen chemistry to mean on-screen sexual chemistry & romance, notice all the possible nominees had kissing in their vids. Dean and Castiel’s chemistry therefore absolutely falls under bromance, but only some SPN’s see that chemistry as being sexual or romantic. It’s certainly not a homophobic issue – Kurt & Blaine from Glee are in the top five.

sebastian wilson – I highly doubt that they actually got 3/4’s of the preliminary votes, and if they did the PCA’s would have likely assumed SPN used bots of some sort and tossed them out for that. Why? Because all the other competitions are much tighter than that and it would be a huge anomaly. Like I said though, I don’t think the splits were anything close to that.

While I saw the info posted by susanna89 as evidence that Dean&Castiel was most used hashtag it actually can’t be used as evidence at all because it’s not done in comparison to how much other fandoms were using THEIR hashtags. When a show trends on twitter those hashtags are 2000+ a MINUTE. There are shows that trend for hours every week – Castle is one of them – Scandal is also. The same people trending are the ones tweeting votes.

It’s the same with the Tumblr post with 23,345 notes. The PCA’s had 160,000,000 votes cast in this thing. Furthermore, blog notes in general are a small part of the voting takes place. The site voting is where people were voting for hours a day – and clicking is faster than write in – or even tweeting.

I know it’s a huge letdown, especially since SPN’s Dean & Castiel has done very well in the on-line contests this year. However, individual website contests are easier to target and they cater to the internet crowd. The PCA’s get a ton of mainstream viewers: on their facebooks, AOL’s, and MSN’s. These are people who wouldn’t know that the phrase “Give Me My Remote” can mean something other than “pass me my electronic device that controls the TV”. It’s not just the core fandoms that are voting in this thing.

I understand being suspicious, and yeah, the PCA’s process can appear suspect in a number of ways, but in this case (and FYI this applies for TIVA too – and I support TIVA) the size and numbers make a lot of sense. That time that TVD got Nina Dobrev on the ballot as a write-in their entire fandom was behind them. With both TIVA and D&C it wasn’t a full fandom effort.

I’ll be voting for Ryan&Esposito in the bromance department – I’m a Castle fan – but I hope you all can unite around your show as fans, despite it not being acknowledged exactly the way you’d like. It does seem that the one thing the SPN viewers agree on is that the relationship between the guys is a special one. Fandoms have internal fights on canon all the time, but letting those cut your support for a show you love just hurts your
show. Good Luck!

I find it weird that Klaine got a nomination and Destiel didn’t, because I am in both fandoms and, while the Destiel fandom promoted like crazy and voted a lot, the Klaine fandom didn’t really do much. I did see a post about voting for Klaine but it didn’t have that many notes. The posts about voting for Destiel had thousands of notes. I asked a few shippers and the people I asked from the Klaine fandom only voted a few times, whereas the people I asked from the Destiel fandom voted continuously for at keast an hour every day. This is one of the many reasons why I think Destiel should have been nominated. People who only see this from the outside might think that the Destiel fandom is only complaining because we don’t know how to lose, but really this is not what it is about. I feel like the PCA’s really owe us an explanation, because it just seems very unlikely that Destiel didn’t have enough votes. What I think is that maybe Destiel was disqualified for some reason. Perhaps it was because Dean and Castiel had already been nominated for the other category (along with Sam). I don’t know. But that is another thing that doesn’t seem to make sense. I didn’t vote for Dean, Sam and Castiel on the other category, and neither did the people I asked. I don’t mean to be rude or anything, I just really don’t understand how this happened and would like an explanation.

geez, get a grip, guys. do you hear the Mentalist fanbase freaking out, because Simon Baker didn’t make it to nominee? He deserves it just as much! And trust me, we spent just as much time voting as you did. shit happens, so calm down and stop screaming cheat!

Thrilled that “Waking Dead” and Andrew Lincoln aka Rick Grimes are nominated. It is about time he is recognised for the awesome performances every episode. The rest of the cast great as well. Walking Dead is exceptional. And I am much older than the prised demographic!!!

I really have to say that I’m really annoyed by all the ranting of some Supernatural fans. Every time Supernatural doesn’t win in any kind of poll they freak out. Why can’t they just accept that sometimes you lose in life. There were 160 million votes and other shows have great fan bases too. I’m also surprised about some nominations but I don’t run around and accuse others of cheating. So get a grip!

Can you please explain how you’re counting the twitter vote? I’m not sure voting via twitter works. I’d be very disappointed if I spent my time tweeting a vote and then I found out it was all for nothing. Thanks

I really want to see the numbers for the Best Chemistry category. As others have posted, I know there were individuals who voted for Dean & Castiel for hours. I, myself, must have voted for them a couple hundred times. If they really didn’t receive enough votes, then fine. If they’re being disqualified for a different reason, then I’m completely disgusted with the so called “Peoples’s Choice” awards.

When I looked at the list this morning, and saw many of our write-ins did not make it, Like Dean and Cass for Chemistry and Jared for Dramatic Actor, I knew the fix was in. No way the fans did not vote enough for these (and other Supernatural related picks). I am sure, that PCA ignored all write-ins that came their way, especially when dealing with Supernatural. Every winder why Supernatural never gets a nod from the Emmys?

I’m sad and disappointed that Dean and Cas continued to go unrecognized by the people at PCA. Unfortunately, I’m not really surprised. Despite dominating the polls, they didn’t make it into the pre-nominations and we heard no word from PCA stating that they didn’t count for whatever reason. I would like an explanation, because there’s simply no way that Dean & Cas didn’t get enough votes to qualify.

Just give us proof they weren’t just ignored and we’ll be fine with it. We just feel cheated that we gave everything for this, way more than we gave in the other Supernatural votes, yet every other one got into the nominations.

I see country, R&B, hip hop, pop, and a section to vote for bands… but where the hell is the Rock category… I see absolutely no rock nominees. No rock songs, no rock bands, no rock albums, no rock artists. If you’re going to have awards of different categories, don’t you think you should have ALL categories? Like i said, I see all other music genres, except rock.

When the People’s Choice Awards pre-nomination came out for people to choose their official nominees for the categories in October, I was fairly shocked and incredibly disappointed to see that Dean & Castiel from Supernatural weren’t among the pre-nominees. In People’s Choice Awards Blog, there were 300 mentions to nominee Dean & Castiel to Best On-Screen Chemistry, followed by Tiva with 190 mentions (http://blog.peopleschoice.com/2013/09/20/tv-couples-best-chemistry/). However Dean & Castiel weren’t included on the list.

Today, when the official nominees were announced, Dean & Castiel weren’t among the 5 final nominees for Best On-Screen Chemistry.

If you go through the blogs that constitute the notes of that post, you’ll see they are independent individuals on tumblr who voted their hearts out to nominate ‘Dean & Castiel’ for Best On-Screen Chemistry, some of them voted hundreds of times per day.

These are people. The people.

I would like to see a vote/nomination official count, verified by an official organism to certify the transparency and honesty of People’s Choice Awards. You’re only entitled to be called ‘People’s Choice’ if you do indeed represent the People’s choice.